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DHAKA (THE DAILY STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Recently, many parents in Bangladesh are expressing concerns about the behavioural changes of their children and feeling worried about the impacts of Covid-19 related restrictions on their health and well being.
During an interview, Nancy Close, Assistant Professor at the Child Study Centre at the Yale School of Medicine and Associate Director of the Yale Program in Early Childhood Education, explained what parents may be experiencing with their children (from toddlers to university students). I ve been seeing a lot of regression and more than what, in typical times, is developmentally appropriate. I ve seen children regressing through using baby talk, needing help with routines, needing help with sleeping and toileting-and much more than what s usual for them.
Around 23m children worldwide ‘missed out on routine childhood jabs in 2020’
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Around 23 million children worldwide may have missed out on getting childhood vaccines through routine immunisation programmes last year due to disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, report suggests.
Data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) also indicates up to 17 million children may have not received a single vaccine in 2020.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, said: “Even as countries clamour to get their hands on Covid-19 vaccines, we have gone backwards on other vaccinations, leaving children at risk from devastating but preventable diseases like measles, polio or meningitis.
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Upto 17 million children may have not received a single vaccine in 2020 - UNICEF and WHO report. (Rex Features)
As many as 23 million children worldwide may have missed out on routine childhood vaccines due to disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, report suggests.
Data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) also indicates up to 17 million of those children may have not received a single jab of any kind in 2020.
“Even as countries clamour to get their hands on Covid-19 vaccines, we have gone backwards on other vaccinations, leaving children at risk from devastating but preventable diseases like measles, polio or meningitis,” Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, said.
The United Nations Childrenâs Emergency Fund (Unicef) has announced the signing of an agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV to supply 220 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine against Covid-19 for all 55 member states of the African Union (AU) by the end of 2022.
Some 35 million doses are to be delivered by the end of 2021, Xinhua news agency quoted the Unicef as saying in a statement on Thursday.
The agreement between Unicef and Janssen will help implement the Advance Purchase Commitment signed between the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) and Janssen in March 2021.
That agreement secured an option to order another 180 million doses, bringing the maximum access up to a total of 400 million doses by the end of 2022, said the UN agency.